Globalization and Buddhism in Indonesia: Building Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda By Yulianti According to the 2021 data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are approximately 2,033,608 Indonesians practicing Buddhism which is equal to 0.74% of Read more…
Hiding in Horror: Feeling and Believing Climate Science By Donovan Schaefer We’ve all heard someone accused of “only believing what they want to believe.” It seems so obvious it’s trivial. But looking at it more Read more…
The Climate Crisis Through the Eye of the Needle: Ecology, Economics, and Religion A Counterpoint Conversation with Joerg Rieger, Annika Rieger, and Marcia Pally 5 July 2022, 10:00-12:00 CET | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin and Zoom Read more…
Awakening to the Dreams of History By Laura J. Vollmer The COVID-19 pandemic has had a surprising effect: a renewed interest in dreams, as people are sleeping later and dreaming more. Dream sharing and interpretation Read more…
Knowing What Is True? Between Science and Belief By Dion Forster After a somewhat “rebellious” childhood, I began to feel a strong sense of calling to the priesthood as I approached the end of high Read more…
On COP26 and the Need for Parareligion By Justine M. Bakker Earlier this November, thousands of people—country leaders and activists, climate experts and NGOs—traveled to Glasgow for COP26, the 26th annual UN global Climate Summit. Read more…
Telescopes, Blind Spots, and Future Horizons on Mauna Kea By Greg Johnson This post pertains to the TMT project on Mauna Kea (Hawai`i), which the author has written about on this forum previously. For important Read more…
Calling All Solarpunks! Symmetrical Myths and Rituals for Survival By Morgan Tomalty We are living in a moment where progress is no longer forward, but on we trudge down that doomed path. The “end of Read more…
Specters of Sorrow: Eco-Grief, Ambiguous Loss, and Religious Creativity By Jacob J. Erickson To live in the wake of a global pandemic is to be haunted by complex uncertainties. In planetary diversity, we navigate our Read more…
Invoking the Sacred: Between Conflict and Peace in Climate Conflicts By Joram Tarusarira The impacts of climate change are increasingly undermining human, national, and international security. The modern obsession with positivism and technical approaches to Read more…
